Probably because old calendars (such as the Persian Calendar) used 360 days for a year-when they watched the stars they saw them revolve around the North Star one degree per day.
September 27, 2015 will bring a supermoon lunar eclipse at nightfall. The last lunar eclipse of this magnitude occurred in 1982, and the next one of a similar magnitude will be in 2033. A lesser lunar eclipse will come in 2018. The lunar eclipse part of this phenomenon, according CTV, is caused by the Earth inserting itself between the sun and the moon. As this happens, the Earth casts its shadow on the face of the moon.
According to NASA, the next total lunar eclipse will be on January 31, 2018, and will be seen in Asia, Australia and North America. Penumbral lunar eclipses will occur on March 23, 2016, September 16, 2016, and February 11, 2017. Penumbral eclipses are more difficult to observe because only part of the moon is eclipsed.